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Hi, I’m Michael Benedict Sr.—a senior backend engineer with 10+ years of building large-scale data platforms, search-driven backends, and cloud-native microservices across SaaS, fintech, ecommerce, and edtech. I thrive on turning complex problems into robust, scalable systems that teams can trust and iterate on quickly. I love wearing multiple hats, collaborating with product and design, and growing with startup-minded teams. I’m always looking to learn new things and contribute to production-ready code, reliable architectures, and meaningful outcomes.…Hi, I’m Michael Benedict Sr.—a senior backend engineer with 10+ years of building large-scale data platforms, search-driven backends, and cloud-native microservices across SaaS, fintech, ecommerce, and edtech. I thrive on turning complex problems into robust, scalable systems that teams can trust and iterate on quickly. I love wearing multiple hats, collaborating with product and design, and growing with startup-minded teams. I’m always looking to learn new things and contribute to production-ready code, reliable architectures, and meaningful outcomes.

Michael Benedict Sr.

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, AI Engineer, +2

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Hi, I’m Michael Benedict Sr.—a senior backend engineer with 10+ years of building large-scale data platforms, search-driven backends, and cloud-native microservices across SaaS, fintech, ecommerce, and edtech. I thrive on turning complex problems into robust, scalable systems that teams can trust and iterate on quickly. I love wearing multiple hats, collaborating with product and design, and growing with startup-minded teams. I’m always looking to learn new things and contribute to production-ready code, reliable architectures, and meaningful outcomes.…Hi, I’m Michael Benedict Sr.—a senior backend engineer with 10+ years of building large-scale data platforms, search-driven backends, and cloud-native microservices across SaaS, fintech, ecommerce, and edtech. I thrive on turning complex problems into robust, scalable systems that teams can trust and iterate on quickly. I love wearing multiple hats, collaborating with product and design, and growing with startup-minded teams. I’m always looking to learn new things and contribute to production-ready code, reliable architectures, and meaningful outcomes.

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Hi, I’m Michael Benedict Sr.—a senior backend engineer with 10+ years of building large-scale data platforms, search-driven backends, and cloud-native microservices across SaaS, fintech, ecommerce, and edtech. I thrive on turning complex problems into robust, scalable systems that teams can trust and iterate on quickly.

I love wearing multiple hats, collaborating with product and design, and growing with startup-minded teams. I’m always looking to learn new things and contribute to production-ready code, reliable architectures, and meaningful outcomes.

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Work Experience

Sr. Software Engineer / Cloud Engineer at Capgemini Remote

November 1, 2024 - Present

Developed Golang-based microservices and RESTful web services. Implemented GraphQL API endpoints using Django, Flask, Node.js and Apollo Server. Led the design and implementation of a company-wide cloud platform, progressing to lead engineer for platform architecture. Engineered Kubernetes operators (CRDs) to automate ArgoCD authentication and authorization. Implemented efficient cross-communication and event streaming between microservices using gRPC/protobuf and Apache Kafka, enabling scalability and real-time capabilities. Led the design of a scalable microservice architecture for a high-volume delivery application, leveraging NATS to handle over 300k messages/sec. Implemented KServe and Knative on Kubernetes to build ML pipelines, reducing resource consumption and boosting data gathering by 10%. Replaced legacy cron jobs with Airflow for periodic data processing, improving platform reliability with improved monitoring and re-run capabilities. Deployed and managed Kafka on Kubernete

Senior Software Engineer at Deloitte

January 1, 2023 - August 31, 2024

Optimized critical legacy PHP applications by migrating them to a modern platform and cloud infrastructure, increasing availability by 20% and enabling faster rollout of new functionalities. Developed a real-time stream processing service to dynamically adjust pricing and balance demand and supply, resulting in a 5% increase in accepted rides. Developed and maintained backend services in Go for real-time order processing and delivery tracking. Managed relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) to ensure high availability, performance, and data integrity. Configured monitoring and alerting with Grafana, Fluentd, Kibana, and ElasticSearch to ensure real-time visibility.

Software Architect at ATN Consulting

January 1, 2020 - November 30, 2022

Optimized critical legacy applications, secured and managed university research grants for IoT laboratory and pilot projects. Low-level protocol design: engineered a custom Reliable Layer-2 Transport Protocol (Stop-and-Wait ARQ with Retry) on NRF radio modules. Scalability benchmarking: achieved stable performance for 1,000 concurrent IoT devices during load testing. Introduced and extended the open-source IoT platform Mainflux to build a scalable backend for environmental monitoring products. Developed microservices in Python and Go to integrate sensors, actuators, and gateways with IoT platforms. Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio.

Software Engineer at Veeco Remote

January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2019

Evaluated data quality for business intelligence using Python, pandas and NumPy. Developed a GraphQL API for the IoT Platform, enabling data filtering. Implemented a data-processing pipeline with Apache Spark on a serverless-like architecture using Docker Swarm. Implemented and optimized RESTful APIs and scalable web applications using ASP.NET, .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. Managed SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis). Configured monitoring and logging using Grafana, Fluentd, Kibana, and Elasticsearch to ensure real-time visibility.

Full Stack Developer at Infosys Raleigh

November 1, 2013 - November 30, 2015

WebRTC innovation: built in-application video call solution using WebRTC based on the Pion Framework (Go), handling 1,000 concurrent calls with distributed design. Increased application installation rate by 5% with stable video calling features. Configured bare-metal infrastructure (HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 with VMware ESXi). Deployed services using Docker Swarm across staging and production environments.

Senior Software Engineer / ML Engineer at Capgemini

November 1, 2024 - Present

Developed Golang-based microservices and RESTful web services. Implemented GraphQL API endpoints using Django, Flask, Node.js and Apollo Server. Led the design and implementation of a company-wide cloud platform, progressing to lead engineer for platform architecture. Engineered Kubernetes operators (CRDs) to automate ArgoCD authentication and authorization. Implemented efficient cross-communication and event streaming between microservices using gRPC/protobuf and Apache Kafka, enabling the platform's scalability and real-time capabilities. Led the design of a scalable microservice architecture for a high-volume delivery application, leveraging NATS to handle over 300k messages/sec. Implemented KServe and Knative on Kubernetes to build ML pipelines, reducing resource consumption and boosting data gathering by 10%. Replaced legacy cron jobs with Airflow for periodic data processing, enhancing platform reliability with improved monitoring and re-run capabilities. Deployed and managed Kaf

Full Stack Developer at Infosys

November 1, 2013 - November 1, 2015

WebRTC Innovation: Achieved an in-application video call solution using WebRTC (Go) based on the Pion Framework, handling 1,000 concurrent calls. Increased application installation rate by 5% through stable video calling features. Configured bare-metal infrastructure (HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9) with VMware ESXi. Deployed services using Docker Swarm across staging and production environments.

Sr. Backend Engineer at Capgemini

November 1, 2024 - Present

Designed and developed production-grade Python microservices and REST/gRPC APIs supporting high-concurrency workloads on AWS and GCP; built cloud-native architecture with event-driven patterns and scalable data pipelines.

Senior Backend Engineer at Deloitte

January 1, 2023 - August 1, 2024

Led backend development for real-time order processing and cloud-native microservices; owned end-to-end API design, authentication (OAuth2/JWT), observability, and production reliability.

Software Engineer at Veeco

January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2019

Built production-grade backend systems using Flask, NestJS and Node.js; enabled cloud-native deployments on AWS with observability and AI-driven automation; drove reliability and performance improvements.